Co-adaptation
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech noun
Quick meaning: Co-adaptation is a noun meaning A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.
Meaning
A mutual adaptation of species, organs or genes.
Example Sentences
Slow though the process of selection may be, if feeble man can do much by his powers of artificial selection, I can see no limit to the amount of change, to the beauty and infinite complexity of the coadaptations between all organic beings, one with another and with their physical conditions of life, which may be effected in the long course of time by nature's power of selection.
Word Forms
- co-adaptations
- coadaptation
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include counteradaptation, coevolution, adaptation, bioadaptation, mechanoadaptation, co-evolution.
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